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Interest Rate Swap

An interest rate swap is an arrangement whereby one party exchange one set of interest payments for another. In the most common arraignment, fixed rate interest payments are exchanged for floating rate interest payments over times.

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Interest rate swap is a transaction in which two counterparties exchange interest payment streams of different character (such as floating vs. fixed), based on an underlying notional principal amount.

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